Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., issued a sharp and unusual challenge to the truthfulness of the nations top uniformed military commander on Thursday, demanding that U.S. Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, return to Capitol Hill to provide fresh testimony on the Benghazi attacks.

The point of contention involved whether any military officers issued an order to U.S. armed forces personnel on the night of Sept. 11, when the U.S. consulate and a nearby annex came under terrorist attack, to stand down from providing assistance.

I asked [Gen. Dempsey] directly, Graham said in an exclusive interview with Fox News. Were there any military assets in motion, to help folks in Benghazi, [that were] told to stand down? And what did [State Department whistleblower] Greg Hicks say? That Lt. Col. [Steve] Gibson -- a DOD employee, a member of the Army -- was in Tripoli, ready and willing to go to Benghazi, preparing to go to Benghazi, and was told to stand down.

Someone probably has a “get out of jail free” birth certificate and my bet is on Hillary. One of these libs is liable to spill the beans about what really happened in Benghazi and I hope it’s sooner rather than later.

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posted on 05/09/2013 5:02:43 PM PDT
by DocRock
(All they that TAKE the sword shall perish with the sword. Matthew 26:52 Gun grabbers beware.)

Someone probably has a “get out of jail free” birth certificate and my bet is on Hillary. One of these libs is liable to spill the beans about what really happened in Benghazi and I hope it’s sooner rather than later.

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posted on 05/09/2013 5:03:19 PM PDT
by DocRock
(All they that TAKE the sword shall perish with the sword. Matthew 26:52 Gun grabbers beware.)

Gen. Dempsey is a political whore who will say anything to be reappointed.

A Pentagon spokesman already admitted the Spec Ops team was ordered to stand down. The Administration has been playing a word game. They claim the team was never ordered to "stand down" - they just weren't authorized to go to Benghazi. Riiiight. Lying slimeballs.

Benghazi had to be burned and all the weapons had to be stolen from the warehouses before any witnesses could arrive as any sort of rescue force. Imagine a rescue team showing up and discovering thousands of 50 cal rifles, shoulder fired missiles, RPG's, and other tools of mayhem which Obama said he was not supplying. The records and documents needed to be burned as well.

For all we know, this was the best way to wind it down in their minds. Clean.

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posted on 05/09/2013 5:14:24 PM PDT
by blackdog
(There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)

“They were simply told not to go to Benghazi.” Dempsey needs to retire tomorrow. He’s lost all effectiveness. “Trust is the foundation of all relationships.” How can any Soldier trust him now? When I was a Second Lieutenant, it was impressed on me by my bosses (in no uncertain terms) that when I called in that I had crossed the SP (Starting Point) I had better damn well be telling the truth. Here we have what, a four star general who can’t be honest? I wouldn’t tolerate that from a Second Lieutenant, much less a four star general. He has to go. Lives depend on it. He’ll have a good retirement check.

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posted on 05/09/2013 5:37:15 PM PDT
by blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")

Asked to comment on Grahams challenge to the chairmans veracity, Pentagon spokesman Maj. Rob Firman told Fox News: They werent told to stand down. They were simply told not to go to Benghazi. They were told to go to the airport in Tripoli to provide security there.

So Benghazi will now boil down to semantics !!!

They weren't told to stand down, just don't go...

How Clintonian...

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posted on 05/09/2013 5:40:46 PM PDT
by Popman
(Godlessness is always the first step to the concentration camp.)

This government fish is rotting from the head down. An African communist Commander-in-Chief is certainly not going to have as his Chairman of the Joint Chiefs a general who has any integrity. Sure enough, Dempsey is not only a faggot-hugging political hack, he’s also a brazen liar. The two of them are destroying the greatest military in the world. Slowly but surely.

You are so right. The Al Qaeda rebels in Syria received these weapons through Benghazi. This is the worst foreign policy catastrophe of all. The Obama Regime is helping turn over Syria to the Al Qaeda. Syria borders Israel. We will be watching Israel be hit with rocket attacks loaded with sarin gas supplied by Iran. Sarin is estimated to be over 500 times more toxic than cyanide and it can be absorbed through the skin. People who do not get a lethal dose will have permanent neurological damage.

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posted on 05/09/2013 6:25:43 PM PDT
by jonrick46
(The opium of Communists: other people's money.)

Dempsey’s and the other military commanders statements that the Ready Reaction Teams were not available, were too far away, etc. is total BS. I would expect that all were on high alert and on standby for immediate deployment for the anniversary of 911. 5 hour deployment for the Italian team is pure BS. Non-deployment of ONE of the African/Mid-East teams was a choice not a fact. And since we have a multitude of drones over in the area one or two armed drones could have been there in minutes. They need to relieve from duty, court martial and drum out of service a good portion of the “political” military commanders.

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posted on 05/09/2013 6:50:51 PM PDT
by RetiredTexasVet
(You don't have to be stupid to become a Progressive, but it does speed up the process.)

Obama knowingly lied about a video, ran off to the UN and gave a speech referencing that video and saying “The Future Must Not Belong to Those Who Slander the Prophet of Islam”

He gives F16’s to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.

He goes to Mexico, criticizes the United States and invites their illegal entry to the United States - promising no prosecution and enticing them with blanket citizenship.

He has LaRaza in the White House.

Do I have to go on?

Have the retard Democrats and the pussy Republicans figured out what’s going on? Silence is complicity. Acquiesce is complicity.

The man hates the United States and seeks to harm it. His loyalty is not to the United States. His instinct is not favorable to the United States, his reflex is to Islam.

He KNEW the video was not to blame. HE KNEW! Yet he used it as a pretense “The Future Must Not Belong to Those Who Slander the Prophet of Islam”. His instinct wasn’t to our dead ambassador or our military. His instinct was to defend Islam.

Rant over (for now)

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posted on 05/09/2013 6:58:32 PM PDT
by Ray76
(Do you reject Obama? And all his works? And all his empty promises?)

What scares me the most is they blamed a Coptic Christian for making a video that led to this protest. Is this the beginning of blaming Christians for the troubles in the world? Why hasn’t anyone mentioned this angle to this story. Our government is persecuting Christianity to save Islam.

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posted on 05/09/2013 7:04:14 PM PDT
by kagoots
(Soon we will envy the dead)

My question would be to the joint chiefs would be,where do you keep the Crystal ball that tells you how long an attack will last,and we can ask Defense Secretary Panetta why he says that we don’t send our people into a situation that we don’t know what is happening?but we do know how long it is going to last? Someone better put all this carp together

Have some faith, not necessarily in lindsey, but in good decent people who might surprise you.
***Exactly how many real conservatives can you count that are involved in the process at the level of Lindsey Backstabber Graham?

Oh jeez, ya know what, I am not interested in going through the whole crazy mess and name names. All I’m stating, take it or leave it, is to have some faith and maybe, just maybe keep a positive mindset. But hey, some here seem to revel in being down and out - have at it. I’m not interested.

I disagree. obama’s voters never consider issues such as national security or anything else there concerns were: 1. Who will give me the most freebies.2. Wil my freebies continue. 3. obama is not a Republican. 3. obama is not a Conservative. 4. obama is not a Christian. 5. obama hates America as much as I do. 6. obama hates Whites as much as I do. 7.I, myself, being born White wish to show that I hate both myself for being born that way and tthat I am not racists. I will accomplish that by voting for obama.
The above covers the obama voters from head to foot issuewise.

The man hates the United States and seeks to harm it. His loyalty is not to the United States. His instinct is not favorable to the United States, his reflex is to Islam.

"When the political winds shift I will go with the muslims"......we all thought that was a reference to his view of Israel vs. Islam.....it wasn't. He was speaking directly to which side he would choose when radical, terroristic, islam vs. the U.S.A.

Spot on! The DemonRATs could have ran a “Yellow Dog Democrat,” a reference to southern Democrats said to be so loyal they would even vote for a yellow dog if it were labeled Democrat. In our case they ran a . . . black DemonRAT.

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posted on 05/11/2013 2:03:51 PM PDT
by jonrick46
(The opium of Communists: other people's money.)

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